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...Manhattan U.S. attorney Mary Jo White announced Friday that her office is investigating the commutations Clinton granted to four Hasidic men from upstate New York, amidst allegations the men promised to generate votes for Hillary Clinton's Senate run in exchange for the presidential action. The men, convicted of stealing millions in federal funds, all received clemency. Investigators say they know lawyers for the men met with both President Clinton and Senator-elect Clinton after the election - but it's pre-election contact everyone's interested in. Both Clintons deny any quid pro quo; Hillary told reporters in January that...
...WHITE EXPANDS HER CASELOAD (3/13/01) Justice Department officials report that Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked Manhattan U.S. attorney Mary Jo White to expand her current investigation into some of President Clinton's pardons to include all 177 of the last-minute clemencies and commutations. According to sources, Ashcroft issued the directive in order to "consolidate" the ongoing inquiries...
...According to the Times, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White has added Roger's file to her office's ever-expanding pardon probe...
...Reports emerge that Denise Rich is in negotiations with the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office; she may be brokering a deal to tell what she knows about her ex-husband's pardon...
...anything, there's too much of a menagerie out there: more than 50 cute 'n' friendly file-sharing services. And Napster's (original) headphone-clad cat looms so large that if you shut the service down, you are effectively sending users from a Virgin Megastore the size of Manhattan into dozens of poky vinyl-enthusiast stores that have no way of communicating with one another. Even though Gnutella clones (like Gnotella and Gnucleus) share the same networks, the technology still segregates users into temporary 10,000-person groups. And those users can forget about sharing with the geeks over...